Anthropic Plans to Acquire MatX for Approximately $7 Billion

Anthropic has been in discussions to acquire the artificial intelligence chip startup MatX for approximately $7 billion, aiming to accelerate the development of customized hardware for its AI business. The negotiations later evolved into discussions about a partnership. MatX is currently seeking a new round of funding, with a valuation of around $4 billion. The discussions with MatX indicate that Anthropic may be interested in developing chips for model training, while other chip startups and competitors like OpenAI are working on processors better suited for generating chatbot responses, known as inference chips. However, Anthropic may also choose to develop inference chips.

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